Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution: Delayed Transition in the Former Soviet Union

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Routledge, May 15, 2017 - Political Science - 262 pages
Jonathan Wheatley examines the tortuous process of regime change in Georgia from the first pro-independence protests of 1988 to the aftermath of the so-called Rose Revolution in 2004. It is set within a comparative framework that includes other transition countries, particularly those in the former Soviet Union. The book provides two important theoretical innovations: the notion of a regime, which is an under-theorized concept in the field of transition literature, and O'Donnell, Schmitter and Karl's notion of a dynamic actor-driven transition. The volume turns to the structural constraints that framed the transition in Georgia and in other republics of the former Soviet Union by looking at the state and society in the USSR at the close of the Soviet period. It examines the evolution and nature of the Georgian regime, and ultimately addresses the theoretical and empirical problems posed by Georgia's so-called Rose Revolution following the falsification of parliamentary elections by the incumbent authorities.
 

Contents

Preface
Map of Georgias Provinces
The Anatomy and Evolution of Regimes
Implications for Regime Change
Nationalist Mobilization in Georgia 19891991
Shevardnadzes Return and its Aftermath 19921995
The Georgian State 19962001
The Influence of Society on the Georgian State 19962001
A Second Transition?
Conclusion
Appendix
Bibliography
Index

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Jonathan Wheatley is Research Fellow at the Osteuropa Institute of the Free University Berlin, Germany. He is part of a project called 'Accounting for State-Building, Stability and Violent Conflict: The Institutional Framework of Caucasian and Central Asian Transitional Societies'. The project explores the conditions for successful/failed defusing of conflict potential in Caucasian and Central Asian societies within the context of successful/failed state building.

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